[Reportbug-maint] Bug#673534: reportbug: supplying an e-mail address should be optional, not required

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Sun May 20 15:26:14 UTC 2012


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:12 PM,  <marc.carter-ceqosy2 at cool.fr.nf> wrote:
>>> It's foolish to require a bug submitter to supply an email address.
>>
>>I stop here. Debian BTS is email-based, so you *need* a working email
>>address in order to be contacted by who needs to get your input.
>
> Nonsense.
>
> In principle, of course an e-mail address is not required.  Followup
> questions are already posted publically.  A working email is only
> "needed" because of a misguided design limitation of the reportbug
> tool.  The design is broken.

You don't know what you're talking about. I suggest to either sit down
and try to understand better what is the Debian BTS or simply go away.
Given you're wasting my time, I won't reply further to any email of
this bug.

Goodbye,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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